Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Save time: "Call Ahead" at the Schomburg
Center
3 items/day 24-hour
advance notice Exact
call numbers required
- You can have items from the Jean Blackwell
Hutson General Research and Reference
Division closed stacks or offsite materials
from the collections of the Humanities & Social
Sciences Library and the Science, Industry & Business
Library waiting for you when you arrive. Just
phone or e-mail your requests. Exact call
numbers are required.
CONTACT US:
Jean Blackwell Hutson General Research and Reference
Division
(212) 491-2242 or 491-2218 callaheadgenref@nypl.org
PLEASE GIVE US THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
- To request periodicals: Exact call
#; Title, Volume number and/or date
- To request books: Exact call
#, Author’s name (first and last); Title
- Your contact information: E-mail
address and telephone number(s)
PLEASE NOTE:
- At least 24-hour advance notice is required
for on-site materials. Earlier notice is appreciated.
- Offsite materials may require two business
days. For example: a request placed on
Tuesday should be available on Thursday; requests
placed Thursday afternoons through Saturday will
be filled on the following Tuesday.
- Some materials may not be available. When this
occurs, we will make every effort to notify you
ahead of time. Please verify that
your materials are ready.
- Material not called for within 3 business days
after you are notified will be returned to the
stacks.
EXCEPTIONS:
- Materials held in the special collections divisions
may not be requested in advance
- Newspapers, unbound periodicals, maps, materials
in microform and books from our open shelf reference
collection may not be requested in advance.
